Inventory of the Maxwell Myer Wintrobe papers

Table of Contents

Collection Overview

Collection Inventory+/-

Biographical Note/Historical Note

Content Description

Collection Use

Administrative Information

Subjects

Collection Overview +/-

Title: Maxwell Myer Wintrobe papers
Dates: 1905-1998 (inclusive)
Collection Number: Accn0954
Summary: The Maxwell Myer Wintrobe papers (1905-1998) contain personal papers, books, articles, correspondence, material from professional organizations, University of Utah office files, research notes, awards, plaques, biographical material, personal mementoes, and travel documents. These materials all relate to Maxwell Myer Wintrobe (1901-1986), often called the "founder of hematology." His research established hematology as a clinical and scientific discipline. He was also one of the first to pioneer treatments for cancer through chemotherapy.
Repository: J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Address:
Special Collections
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-0860
(801) 581-8864

Collection Inventory +/-

box 1: Biographical Information
box 2: Biographical Information
box 3: General Correspondence (1919-1977)
box 4: General Correspondence (1978-1980)
box 5: General Correspondence (1981-1985)
box 6: General Correspondence (1986-1990 and Undated)
box 7: Condolences Correspondence (1986-1988)
box 8: Travel, Personal Items (1933-1962)
folders 1-3: U. S. Passports for Max Wintrobe (1933-1962)
folder 4: International Driving Permit for Max Wintrobe (1954-1955)
folder 5: Canadian Passport for Becky Wintrobe (1933)
folder 6: U. S. Passport for Becky Wintrobe (1962)
folder 7: Traveler's Address Book
folders 8-11: Vacation Journals (1949-1958)
box 9: Travel, Personal Items and Vacation Journals (1959-1966)
box 10: Travel, Locations, A-T
box 11: Travel, Locations, U
box 12: Awards and Honors
box 13: Certificates, Diplomas, and Awards (1921-1970)
box 14: Plaques and Mementos (1965-1972)
box 15: Plaques and Awards (1917-1983)
box 16: Scrapbook (1905-1961)

This book contains family photographs, conference and college photographs, correspondence, news clippings, lecture announcements, magazine articles, invitations, programs, travel photographs, maps, lecture series information, and Medical Society pamphlets and publications.

box 17: Scrapbooks (1961-1984)

These two books contain the same type of material as box 16.

box 18: Correspondence on General Business Subjects (1976-1985)
box 19: Correspondence Concerning Pharmaceuticals and Drug Replacements (1970-1986)
box 20: Correspondence Concerning Publication in Academic Journals (1965-1985)
box 21: Correspondence with Colleagues, A-L
box 22: Correspondence with Colleagues, M-W
box 23: Finances (1964-1985)
box 24: General Business Files, A-P
box 25: General Business Files, P-W
box 26: Harvard Monsanto Agreement Documents
box 27: Law Suits Material, A-J
box 28: Law Suits Material, K-S
box 29: Law Suits Material, T-W
box 30: Plenum Press Business Files and Correspondence
box 31: University of Utah, Business Files, A-G
box 32: University of Utah, Business Files, H-T
box 33: Professional Organizations, A
box 34: Professional Organizations, A
box 35: Professional Organizations, A-B
box 36: Professional Organizations, C-I
box 37: Professional Organizations, I
box 38: Professional Organizations, International Society of Hematology, A-C
box 39: Professional Organizations, International Society of Hematology, C-D
box 40: Professional Organizations, International Society of Hematology, E-T
box 41: Professional Organizations, I-M
box 42: Professional Organizations, M-N
box 43: Professional Organizations, The National Academy of Sciences, A
box 44: Professional Organizations, The National Academy of Sciences, A-C
box 45: Professional Organizations, The National Academy of Sciences, C
box 46: Professional Organizations, The National Academy of Sciences, C-F
box 47: Professional Organizations, The National Academy of Sciences, I-P
box 48: Professional Organizations, The National Academy of Sciences, P-W
box 49: Professional Organizations, N-P
box 50: Professional Organizations, P-U
box 51: Professional Organizations, U-Y
box 52: Blood, Pure and Eloquent
box 53: Blood, Pure and Eloquent and Clinical Hematology

This box contains an edition of written in Greek, and published in two sections.

box 54: Clinical Hematology , Correspondence (1956-1983)
box 55: Clinical Hematology and Hematology: The Blossoming of a Science
box 56: The History of Hematology
box 57: The Medical Letter
box 58: Collected Reprints of Maxwell M. Wintrobe (1928-1948)
box 59: Collected Reprints of Maxwell M. Wintrobe (1949-1956)
box 60: Collected Reprints of Maxwell M. Wintrobe (1957-1975)
box 61: Collected Reprints of Maxwell M. Wintrobe

At first glance, the books in this box would appear to be duplicates of one another; but a closer inspection reveals that changes have been made to some of them. This suggests that the articles with additions to them are actually later versions of the original articles; unfortunately, without any dates it is impossible to be certain.

box 62: Articles, Papers, and Other Publications, A-M
box 63: Articles, Papers, and Other Publications, N-Z
box 64: Lectures and Talks, A-J
box 65: Lectures and Talks, K-S
box 66: Lectures and Talks, T-Y
box 67: Biographies for Hematology: The Blossoming of a Science , A
box 68: Biographies for Hematology: The Blossoming of a Science , B
box 69: Biographies for Hematology: The Blossoming of a Science , B
box 70: Biographies for Hematology: The Blossoming of a Science , B-C
box 71: Biographies for Hematology: The Blossoming of a Science , C
box 72: Biographies for Hematology: The Blossoming of a Science , D
box 73: Biographies for Hematology: The Blossoming of a Science , D-F
box 74: Biographies for Hematology: The Blossoming of a Science , F-G
box 75: Biographies for Hematology: The Blossoming of a Science , G-G
box 76: Biographies for Hematology: The Blossoming of a Science , H
box 77: Biographies for Hematology: The Blossoming of a Science , I-K
box 78: Biographies for Hematology: The Blossoming of a Science , K-L
box 79: Biographies for Hematology: The Blossoming of a Science , L
box 80: Biographies for Hematology: The Blossoming of a Science , M
box 81: Biographies for Hematology: The Blossoming of a Science , M-N
box 82: Biographies for Hematology: The Blossoming of a Science , O-Q
box 83: Biographies for Hematology: The Blossoming of a Science , R
box 84: Biographies for Hematology: The Blossoming of a Science , S
box 85: Biographies for Hematology: The Blossoming of a Science , S-T
box 86: Biographies for Hematology: The Blossoming of a Science , T-V
box 87: Biographies for Hematology: The Blossoming of a Science , W-X
box 88: Biographies for Hematology: The Blossoming of a Science , Y-Z
box 89: Books, C-M (1950-1972)
folder 1: Civilization and Science in Conflict or Collaboration ? (1972)
folder 2: Collected Reprints of Dr. James A. Bush (1950-1956)
folder 3: Galen's Hygiene (1951)
folder 4: The Loom of History (1958)
folders 5-6: The Medical Aphorisms of Moses Maimonides , Volumes I and II (1970-1971)
box 90: Books, P-U (1937-1960)
folder 1: The Papyrus Ebers: The Greatest Egyptian Medical Document (1937)
folder 2: Research in Medical Science (1950)
folder 3: The University of Utah: A History of Its First Hundred Years--1850 to 1950 (1960)
box 91: General Anemia Research Files, A-N
box 92: General Anemia Research Files, N-U
box 93: General Research Files, A-B
box 94: General Research Files, C-F
box 95: General Research Files, G-O
box 96: General Research Files, P-Z
box 97: Research Reports
box 98: Personal and Academic Items (1967-1996)
folder 1: "The Prion Research Odyssey, Novel Microbes Which Cause Neurological Diseases" (1982)
folder 2: American Society of Hematoloty and Clinical Symposia Booklets (1979)
folder 3: Standards and Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiac Care, American Heart Association BLS Test, and Medical Education Calendar (1981)
folder 4: Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (1985)
folder 5: Commission on World Standards of the World Association of Societies of Pathology Symposium (1985)
folders 6-7: American Journal of Medicine (1978, 1986)
folder 8: Science Indicators (1978)
folders 9-10: New England Journal of Medicine (1986)
folder 11: University of Utah Donor Report (1991)
folders 12-13: University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Annual Reports (1991, 1993)
folder 14: "Maxwell Myer Wintrobe: A Biography"
folder 15: Calendar (1990)
folder 16: Pamphlets

Regarding medicine and the Hotel Twin Dolphin.

folder 17: "The Unchanging Desert" and "Petra of the Nabataeans"
folder 18: Unititled Manuscript on Trip to Jordan
folders 19-22: Awards and Certificates (1967-1996)
box 99: Collected Reprints of Maxwell Myer Wintrobe (1928-1939)

These are in two bound volumes.

box 100: Collected Reprints of Maxwell Myer Wintrobe (1939-1948)

These are in two bound volumes.

box 101: Collected Reprints of Maxwell Myer Wintrobe (1949-1956)

These are in two bound volumes.

box 102: Collected Reprints of Maxwell Myer Wintrobe (1957-1975)

These are in two bound volumes.

box 103: Oversize Materials (1958-1981)

Travel materials, awards, degrees, and certificates.

box 104: Oversize Quantitative Buffy Coat Analysis Chart
box 105: General Materials (1949-1998)

This box also contains twelve plaque and coin awards.

folder 1: Correspondence (1987-1995)
folder 2: "Anemia: Two Things You Should Do First" (1979)
folder 3: Announcements, Invitations, and Programs (1976-1998)
folder 4: Biographical Information (1983-1996)
folder 5: Guest Book (1949)
box 106: Oversize Materials (1981)
folder 1: Artwork
folder 2: Certificates (1981)
item 1: Maxwell Myer Wintrobe Research and Education Building Dedication Scrapbook (1981)
box 107: Anatomy Notes and Autograph Book (1920-1952)
folder 1: "Applied Anatomy" notebook (1920s)

Notebook contains handwritten notes and drawings by Wintrobe.

folder 2: "Autographs" book of Susan Wintrobe (1947-1952)

This book contains autographs to Susan Wintrobe, Maxwell Wintrobe's daughter, from people in many different languages and locations around the world that were visiting her father. Some of the people who signed this book: Guzine Kayssi, Theodore B. Schwart, H.C. Chang, Alf Andersen, Ann Hamilton, and Grant Johannesen. Grant Johannesen was a famed pianist from Utah whose own papers are contained in the Marriott Library (Accn 2199).

Biographical Note/Historical Note +/-

Maxwell Myer Wintrobe (1901-1986) was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and graduated from the University of Manitoba in 1921. He received his M.D. from University of Manitoba in 1926, and then moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, to study for his Ph.D. at Tulane University. After receiving his degree in 1929, he joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins University. In 1943, he accepted an appointment as a professor of internal medicine and Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of Utah College of Medicine. He was also named the physician-in-chief for the Salt Lake County General Hospital. He directed the Laboratory for the Study of Hereditary and Metabolic Disorders from 1945-1973, and served as Director of the Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute from 1969-1973. Among his other accomplishments, he received the College of Medicine's first research grant, as well as the first research grant awarded by the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Wintrobe's research in the field of hematology introduced that industry's precise measurement capabilities and his Red Blood Cell Indices for classifying anemia. These actions established hematology as a clinical and scientific discipline. Wintrobe provided an understanding of pernicious anemia, thalassemia, and sickle cell anemia. He was also one of the first to pioneer treatments for cancer through chemotherapy. Wintrobe was the author of the first textbook on hematology, Clinical Hematology (1961) and he was one of the founding editors of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine , a widely-used textbook in internal medicine. In addition, he wrote two non-technical books: Blood, Pure and Eloquent (1980) and Hematology, the Blossoming of a Science: A Story of Inspiration and Effort (1985), as well as over 400 articles for professional journals.

Content Description +/-

The Maxwell Myer Wintrobe papers (1905-1998) contain personal papers, books, articles, correspondence, material from professional organizations, University of Utah office files, research notes, awards, plaques, biographical material, personal mementoes, and travel documents. These materials all relate to Maxwell Myer Wintrobe (1901-1986), often called the "founder of hematology."

Collection Use +/-

Restrictions on Access:

Twenty-four hour advance notice may be required.

Administrative Information +/-

Arrangement:

The collection consists of four different groups of material. Each group is arranged in alphabetical order, with subgroups arranged chronologically or alphabetically (depending on the type of material contained within each subgroup). The first group (boxes 1-17) contains biographical and background information, scrapbooks, personal and general correspondence, awards, plaques, curriculum vitae, passports and travel documents, and news clippings. The second group (boxes 18-50) contains Wintrobe's business correspondence, University of Utah office files, newsletters, law suit material, some publishing material, and information on professional organizations to which he lectured or belonged. The third group (boxes 51-65) is comprised of the various drafts of his books, speeches, and journal articles. There is also some publishing material. The fourth group (boxes 66-97)contains the research files and reports he used for his writings and experiments. Boxes 98-106 comprise addenda to the collection and generally contain reprints of Wintrobe's writings. Some biographical materials and other papers are also included. Box 107 contains notes as well as an item that was Susan Walker's, Wintrobe's daughter.

Acquisition Information:

donated by Wintrobe estate and Becky Zanphir Wintrobe (boxes 1-97), 1987-1995

donated by Susan W. Walker (boxes 98-107), 2000, 2006, 2009

Processing Note:

Debra Penman, Lisa DeMille, and Charlotte Hansen 1997, 2007, 2010

Creator:

Wintrobe, Maxwell Myer, 1901-1986

Language:

English

Quantity:

65.25 linear feet

Language of the Finding Aid:

English

Author of the Finding Aid:

Debra Penman, Lisa DeMille

EAD Creation Date:

1997

Subarea:

Manuscripts Division

Subjects +/-

Subject Terms:

Wintrobe, Maxwell Myer, 1901- - Archives
University of Utah. College of Medicine
Blood
Anemia
Hematology
Medicine - Study and teaching - Utah
Science, technology, and health
Medicine and health

Form or Genre Terms:

Articles
Lectures
Correspondence
Office files
Srapbooks
Clippings